Summary: Set in the Latin Quarter of 1830's Paris, the opera focuses on the love between the poet Rodolfo and Mimi, who leaves him due to his irrational jealousy, only to return as she is dying of consumption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2009
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BOHBocelli, Andrea.
Contents: DVD: Melodrama -- Romanza -- A te (feat. Kenny G, saxophone) -- Vivo per lei (feat. Heather Headley, vocals) -- Io ci sarò (feat. Lang Lang, piano) -- Hungarian rhapsody no. 2 in C sharp minor (Lang Lang, piano) -- Voce del silenzio (feat. Elisa, vocals) -- Dancing (Elisa) -- Canto della terra (feat. Sarah Brightman, vocals) -- Bellissime stelle -- Medley: Besame mucho ; Somos novios = It's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC VIVMozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Summary: An abridged production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute for television.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Opera 2006
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MAGSummary: Frederic has led a sheltered life, despite being apprenticed to a Pirate King as a child. When he arrives in Penzance with his boisterous shipmates, there are surprises in store for him, including falling in love and some inconvenient discoveries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA PIRSummary: Hoffmann is a lovelorn young man in Nuremberg who is watching his latest love, Stella, dance in the ballet. In the interval he goes to the tavern where he tells his friends the tales of the three major loves of his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TALDonizetti, Gaetano
Summary: "In a feud between the Scottish families of Ravenswood and Lammermoor, Enrico has gained the upper hand over Edgardo, murdering his kinsmen and usurping his estates. By the time of the opera's action, in the late 17th century, Enrico's fortunes have begun to wane; in political disfavor, he stakes all on uniting his family with that of Arturo, whom he means to force his sister, Lucia, to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2006
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA LUCMassenet, Jules
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA THAVerdi, Giuseppe
Summary: The four parts of the opera have the titles The Duel, The Gypsy, The Gypsy's Son and The Execution. Ferrando tells the story of the revenge taken by a gypsy for the death of her mother, the apparent destruction in the fire of the son of the old Count di Luna. In the palace gardens Leonora waits for her lover, the troubadour Manrico, mistaking the Count di Luna, who also loves her, for him, an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TROBellini, Vincenzo
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Opera 2010
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA SONVerdi, Giuseppe
Summary: The action takes place in ancient Egypt, and tells of the love of Radames, the captain of the guard, for a slave girl, Aida. She is the daughter of the King of Ethiopia, who is captured by Radames and the Egyptian troops. Tricked into betraying military secrets, Radames is condemned to be buried alive. He is joined by Aida, who dies with him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca Music Group Classics 2011
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA AIDBellini, Vincenzo
Summary: During the English Civil War of the 1640's, a Puritan bride goes mad when she feels betrayed by her Royalist bridegroom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA PURFlorez, Juan Diego
Summary: Count Almaviva, in love with Rosina, the ward of Dr. Bartolo, succeeds, with the help of the barber, Figaro, in defeating the doctor's attempts to separate the lovers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BARVerdi, Giuseppe
Summary: Leonora loves a knight who serenades her as a troubadoor. The knight is in an army fighting a civil war agaist the Count, who also loves Leonora. The knight thinks he's the son of the gypsy woman who raised him & whose mother was killed by the Count, but he's actually the Count's brother. When the rivalry between the two men becomes violent, tragedy occurs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012